301 



LOTUS LATHYROIDES- Greene. 



Slender branching and somewhat flex- 

 uose, 2.5-4 dm hi, minutely pubescent; 

 Ifts 5-7 linear-lanceolate, acute at both 

 ends; stipules triangular, 2 mm long, 

 scarious, ovate-acuminate; umbels 1-3- 

 fld, with or without a linear-lanceolate 

 bract; fls 10 mm long; ex-teeth linear, 

 acute; pod as in L. obiongifolius. 



Abrams Fl LA 216. 



Greene, Pittonia 2:146. 



Hosackia lathyroides Dur & Hilg, Pac 

 Ry R 5:6 t 3. 



T T-Trno-PTivT T TTS Prppnp 



isrn- Monterey-? 

 Rllevf BrewVr) 

 1^ 3*3***'** 

 (Davidson). 



Slender, 3-6 dm hi, much branched 

 and ascending, having the habit of Lo- 

 tus glaber, but silvery canescent, with 

 a close short silky pubescence: Ifts 3, 

 cuneate-oblong to linear, 12-15 mm long: 

 umbels few-fld, sessile or short-pedun- 

 cled: fls 6 mm long: ex % as long, with 



Bentham Linn Soc 

 Bentham, Lim c 



Santa 



302 



fld and 3-foliate-bracted; fls y, 8-10 mm 

 long, 3 mm broad; sds quadrate, sel- 

 dom notched except at hilium, 2 mm 

 broad, strongly mottled with bk. 



Abrams, Fl LA 218. Gabriel mts. 



Hosackia nudiflora Nuttall. 



Hosackia strigosa Gray, partim, non 

 Nuttall. 

 LOTUS OBLONGIFOLIUS Greene. 



Erect, slender, 3-4 dm hi, somewhat 

 appressed-pubescent; Ifts 7-11, narrow- 

 ly oblong or oblanceolate, 2.5-3 cm long, 

 acute; stipules sm, acute; ped exceeding 

 tne lvs 5-7-fld; bract subsessile, 1-3- 

 foliate; fls 15 mm long; ex-teeth subu- 

 late ' nearlv equaling the tube; cor y, 

 r brownish ^ Pd slen- 



Tl A 216 

 pmnnia 2 : i4fi 



a -f v %n virinibus Mont^r 

 localltv - in vicinibus Monter- 



ohlnne-ifolia. Rpntham Pi 

 Bentham, PI 





se-pubescent, 



nearly & i abrous> not at all succulent; 

 l f ts 6-10, linear-oblong, mostly acutish; 

 fft 



of standard cordate; pod 2.5 cm long, 

 compressed, constricted between the 



T A 917 



Soc tr 17:367 . 

 Hosackia micrantha Nutt in T & G 



Avi-mAtlnm mipranthiim OVPPTIP Pal 

 ac b Tl47 



Hosackia parviflora Bentham, Bot Reg 



Hosackia microphylla Nuttall in T ft 



,. *. W e-ro r. 

 LOTUS NEVADENSIS Greene. 



Hall U 90. 



Greene, Pittonia 2:149 (1890). 



Hosackia decumbens (?) nevadensis 

 Watson, Bot Gal 1:138 (1876). 



Abrams, Fl LA 219. SBer and San 

 Antonio mts. 



Branches mostly prostrate, wiry at 

 base and more or less woody, 3-6 dm 

 long; sparingly villous or somewhat to- 

 mentose; Ifts 3-5, cuneate-obovate, ac- 

 ute, 6-10 mm long; umbel many-fld, 

 short-peduncled; bract 1 -foliate; ex-tube 

 2 mm long; teeth slender, % as long; 

 pod strongly arcuate. 



Donner Lake to SD Co, plentiful in 

 open pine woods (Greene). 



Type locality: "in the Sierra Nevada 

 from the Yosemite to Sierra Co," Gal. 

 K ^ y , r ?i atlum nevadensis Greene, Cal ac 



LOTUS NUDIFLOBUS Greene. 



Strigose-pubescent, decumbent or as- 

 cending; exceeding the Ivs, usually 2- 



F, 



. Cruz; Rosa; Baja . 



Hosackia StrigOSa Nuttall. 

 LOTUS WBANWELIANUS F & M. 



decumbent or as- 

 eending, 1-^dm ^.^g^-y-J 



cunneate-obovate to oblong, 6-12 mm 

 i on g; ex-teeth Broadly subulate, equal- 

 ing the tube; cor 6 mm long, y; stand- 

 a rd broadly ovate, erect; pod pubescent, 

 straight, 14-20 mm long, 5-7-seeded 

 Cruz- Baja (Br) 



Fisch & Mey Ind Sem Hort Petrop 

 16 (1835) 



Davidson, PI LA Co 4. 



Greene Pittonia 2*138 



Hosackia subpinna'ta T & G, Fl 1:226 

 ( no t Lotus subpinnatus Lag ) 

 HOSACKIA DENTICULATA Drew 



"An, l%-2% hi, stout, erect, sparsely 

 branched, pale g throughout; Ifts obo- 

 vate about 6" long, nearly all denticu- 

 late; the almost filiform lobes of the ex 

 longer than the tube; cor pale y to 

 nearly w, standard purplish; pods as 

 i on g as the Ifts, nearly glabrous, 3-seed- 

 e d. Along Mad river, near Jarnigan's, 

 Jl 10. This plant has hitherto been in- 

 eluded in H. subpinnata, Torr and Gr, 

 but is certainly a distinct species." 

 Drew, Torr cl b 16:151. Humboldt Co. 



